Sentence examples for sustained prose from inspiring English sources

With vivid economy White describes young Bangladeshis' domestic, business and street life in intelligent, beautifully sustained prose.

It is a sustained prose poem, very moving in its effect.

Daniel Defoe came to sustained prose fiction late in a career of quite various, often disputatious writing.

The preface by Tsurayuki, the oldest work of sustained prose in kana, enumerated the circumstances that move men to write poetry; he believed that melancholy, whether aroused by a change in the seasons or by a glimpse of white hairs reflected in a mirror, provided a more congenial mood for writing poetry than the harsher emotions treated in the earlier, pre-kana anthology Man'yōshū.

Hopefully it's a novel, but I have the hardest time sustaining prose.

To Ruebsamen's credit -- and that of the novel's gifted translator, Paul Vincent -- Lulu's perspective is fresh, credible and distinctly drawn, sustained by prose that is at once luminous and dark.

Making different demands on the reader's expectations of order, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon has the unity and fluidity of a sustained improvisation in prose.

This is connoisseurial prose, not sustained argumentation.

Here are others, more sustained: boldly lettering abstruse prose on walls (Lawrence Weiner, since 1968) and registering a century's worth of time in a hundred books of three hundred and sixty-five or (one in every four three hundred and sixty-sixx numerically captioned, otherwise blank pages (Hanne Darboven, 1970).

The New Yorker, November 29 , 1999P. 124 Briefly Noted book review of "The Tiny One" (Knopf; $22) by Eliza Minot... Her narrative occasionally falters — a child's internal monologue is hard to sustain — but her prose bristles with vivacity, and her account of Via's connection to her lost mother is never sentimental.

"Fox's excellent prose... is sustained throughout" the novel, Paula Giddings wrote in the Book Review in 1984.